English
Related papers

Related papers: Valley Isospin Controlled Fractional Quantum Hall …

200 papers

Because of its large density-of-states and the 2{\pi} Berry phase near its low-energy band-contact points, neutral bilayer graphene (BLG) at zero magnetic field (B) is susceptible to chiral-symmetry breaking, leading to a variety of gapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 J. Velasco , Y. Lee , Fan Zhang , Kevin Myhro , David Tran , Michael Deo , Dmitry Smirnov , A. H. MacDonald , C. N. Lau

Bilayer graphene (BLG) offers a rich platform for broken symmetry states stabilized by interactions. In this work we study the phase diagram of BLG in the quantum Hall regime at filling factor $\nu=0$ within the Hartree-Fock approximation.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Ganpathy Murthy , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert Fertig

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

We report on integer and fractional quantum Hall states in a stack of two twisted Bernal bilayer graphene sheets. By exploiting the momentum mismatch in reciprocal space, we suppress single particle tunneling between both bilayers. Since…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Soyun Kim , Dohun Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jurgen. H. Smet , Youngwook Kim

Even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states are promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computing due to their underlying non-Abelian topological orders. However, the topological order of these states remains hotly debated.…

New phase of matter usually emerges when a given symmetry breaks spontaneously, which can involve charge, spin, and valley degree of freedoms. Here, we report an observation of new correlated insulators evolved from spin polarized states to…

We report on transport measurements of dual-gated, single-layer graphene devices in the quantum Hall regime, allowing for independent control of the filling factors in adjoining regions. Progress in device quality allows us to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 F. Amet , J. R. Wiliams , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Graphene's outstanding mechanical properties lend to strain engineering, allowing for future valleytronics and nanoelectromechanic applications. In this work, we have found that a Gaussian-shaped strain on a graphene p-n junction results in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Nojoon Myoung , Hyungkook Choi , Hee Chul Park

Bernal bilayer graphene has recently been discovered to exhibit a wide range of unique ordered phases resulting from interaction-driven effects and encompassing spin and valley magnetism, correlated insulators, correlated metals, and…

The nature of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states is determined by the interplay between the Coulomb interaction and the symmetries of the system. The unique combination of spin, valley, and orbital degeneracies in bilayer graphene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Angela Kou , Benjamin E. Feldman , Andrei J. Levin , Bertrand I. Halperin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amir Yacoby

Magnetic fields quench the kinetic energy of two dimensional electrons, confining them to highly degenerate Landau levels. In the absence of disorder, the ground state at partial Landau level filling is determined only by Coulomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 A. A. Zibrov , E. M. Spanton , H. Zhou , C. Kometter , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , A. F. Young

In multivalley semiconductors, the valley degree of freedom can be potentially used to store, manipulate and read quantum information, but its control remains challenging. The valleys in bilayer graphene can be addressed by a perpendicular…

Divergent density of states offers the unique opportunity to explore a wide variety of correlated electron physics. In the thinnest limit, this has been predicted and verified in the ultra-flat bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Anna M. Seiler , Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tianyi Xu , Fan Zhang , R. Thomas Weitz

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

We investigate topological phases of bilayer graphene subject to antiferromagnetic exchange field, interlayer bias, and irradiated by light. We discover that at finite bias and light intensity the system transitions into a previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Xuechao Zhai , Yaroslav M. Blanter

At high magnetic fields the conductance of graphene is governed by the half-integer quantum Hall effect. By local electrostatic gating a \textit{p-n} junction perpendicular to the graphene edges can be formed, along which quantum Hall…

We theoretically study the correlated insulator states, quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) states, and field-induced topological transitions between different correlated states in twisted multilayer graphene systems. Taking twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Shihao Zhang , Xi Dai , Jianpeng Liu

We re-examine the nature of the ground states of bilayer graphene at odd integer filling factors within a simplified model of nearly degenerate $n=0$ and $n=1$ Landau levels. Previous Hartree-Fock studies have found that ferroelectric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-03 Thierry Jolicoeur , Csaba Tőke , Inti Sodemann

In the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields, a graphene ribbon has chiral states running along sample edges and along boundaries between $p$-doped and $n$-doped regions. We here consider the scattering of edge states into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Luka Trifunovic , Piet W. Brouwer

In a graphene Landau level (LL), strong Coulomb interactions and the fourfold spin/valley degeneracy lead to an approximate SU(4) isospin symmetry. At partial filling, exchange interactions can spontaneously break this symmetry, manifesting…